Maycock , Sir , Willoughby Robert Dottin , 1849-1922 , Knight , civil servant

Maycock , Sir , Willoughby Robert Dottin , 1849-1922 , Knight , civil servant

Sir Willoughby Robert Dottin Maycock was born in July 1849, the son of Colonel Dottin Maycock of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. He served with the Exchequer and the Audit Department before gaining a clerkship at the Foreign Office in 1872. He was attached to Chamberlain's mission to Washington in 1887 and received a Royal Commission as Acting Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service in the same year. He became an Assistant in the Treaty Department of the Foreign Office in 1897 and was Superintendent 1903-1913. He retired in 1913 and died in November 1922. He published "With Mr Chamberlain in the United States and Canada, 1887-1888".

Information from 'MAYCOCK, Sir Willoughby Robert Dottin', Who Was Who, A and C Black, 1920-2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007.